Comprehensive List of Pakistani Writers

Lately, there has been a rising interest in Pakistani literature, especially Pakistani Writing in English (PWE) or Pakistani Anglophone Writing (PAW). I am compiling a list of Pakistani Writers (of English and other languages) and will update this list periodically with appropriate links. If you see an error in names or linkages, please email me:

1. Aamina Ahmad
2. Aamer Hussein
3. Ahmad Ali
4. Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi | Wiki
5. Ahmed Faraz | Wiki
6. Ahmed Hamaish
7. Alamgir Hashmi
8. Alauddin Masood
9. Ali Sethi
10. Altaf Fatima
11. Altaf Gauhar
12. Amar Jaleel
13. Amar Sindhu
14. Anwar Enayatullah
15. Dr. Anwar Sadeed
16. Dr. Aasif Farrukhi
17. Dr. Anwar Naseem
18. Badshah Munir Bukhari
19. Bapsi Sidhwa
20. Bina Shah
21. Bushra Rehman
22. Daniyal Mueenuddin
23. Daud Kamal
24. Fahmida Riaz | Wiki
25. Faiz Ahmed Faiz
26. Faryal Gohar
27. Fawzia Afzal Khan
28. Hakim Said
29. Hima Raza (deceased) | Remembering Hima
30. Humera Afridi
31. Dr. Jameel Jalbi
32. Iftikhar Aarif
33. Ihsan Danish
34. Ismail Ahmedani
35. Junus Said
36. Kamila Shamsie
37. Kishwar Naheed | Wiki
38. Mazhar Hussain Rehmani
39. Maniza Naqvi
40. Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi al-husaini
41. Mohsin Hamid
42. Muhammad Munawwar Mirza
43. Mohammed Hanif
44. Mumtaz Mufti
45. Muneeza Shamsie
46. Muniruddin Ahmed
47. Mazhar-ul-Islam
48. Mansha Yaad
49. Mirza Hamid Baig
50. Dr. Naseer Ahmad Nasir
51. Naseer Ahmed Nasir
52. Noon Meem Rashid
53. Nasir Kazmi
54. Nasir Baghdadi
55. Nasir Zaidi (deceased) | Wiki
56. Nayyara Rahman
57. Nisar Farooqi
58. Partawi Shah
59. Perveen Shakir (deceased) | Wiki
60. Qaisra Shahraz
61. Qudrat Ullah Shahab
62. Rasheed Ahmed Siddique
63. Dr. Rasheed Amjad
64. Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
65. Roshni Rustomji
66. Saadat Hasan Manto
67. Dr. Saleem Akhtar
68. Sehba Sarwar
69. Saeed Rashid
70. Sabyn Javeri Jillani
71. Sara Suleri Goodyear
72. Sarfraz Manzoor
73. Shaikh Ayaz | Wiki
74. Shaila Abdullah
75. Shahrukh Husain
76. Shahzad Ahmed
77. Shandana Minhas
78. Sheba Karim
79. Shuja Nawaz
80. S. M. Ayub
81. Sonia Kamal
82. Sorayya Khan
83. Syed Kashif Raza
84. Tahir Alauddin
85. Tahir Aslam Gora
86. Tahira Naqvi | SAWNET
87. Tajammul Hussain
88. Talat Abbasi
89. Tariq Ali
90. Taufiq Rafat
91. Tehmina Durrani
92. Umaira Ahmed | Wiki
93. Uzma Aslam Khan
94. Wasif Ali Wasif
95. Dr. Wazir Agha
96. Yousaf Saleem Chishti
97. Zaib-un-nissa Hamidullah
98. Zahir Faruqu
99. Zulfikar Ghose

Other Resources

• Wikipedia List

• Amazon List of Pakistani Authors

• Goodreads Notable List of Pakistani Authors

References

• Pakistani Literature: The Contemporary English Writers edited by Alamgir Hashmi (New York: World University Service, 1978; Islamabad: Gulmohar Press, 1987) (2nd ed.). ISBN 000500408X (OCLC # 19328427; LC Card # 87931006)
• A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English edited by Muneeza Shamsie (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1997). ISBN 0195777840
• Leaving Home: Towards a New Millennium: A Collection of English Prose by Pakistani Writers edited by Muneeza Shamsie (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2001). ISBN 0195795296
• Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings edited by Alamgir Hashmi, Malashri Lal and Victor Ramraj (Islamabad: Alhamra, 2001). ISBN 969-516-093-X